Anthropology

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	Reconstructing the evolution of the big toe to determine at what time humans began to walk would be a research project for which of the following type of anthropologists?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. Ethnographer     2. Forensic      3. Physical      4. Applied     5. Linguistic     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Anthropology is different from other disciplines that study humans because _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. it synthesizes data from many fields in an effort to describe human behavior as a whole      2. it has greater attention to details      3. it was the first science to study human beings     4. it focuses primarily on contemporary Western societies     5. it requires a longer period of training     Score: 0/0.5
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	Which of the following are not primates?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. lemurs and lorises     2. monkeys      3. all of the above are primates      4. tarsiers     5. Asian and African apes     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The Garbage Project in Tucson demonstrated that what people say and what they do can differ dramatically.  For instance, investigators found that _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. no one claimed to use hair coloring but many empty packages of hair dye were found in the trash      2. the amount of beer consumed, according to empty cans in the trash, was far higher than people claimed      3. people claimed to take vitamins daily but the number of empty vitamin bottles did not support this claim     4. no one said they drank Scotch, but several empty Johnny Walker bottles were found in the trash     5. women who said they bought no new clothes in the last month in fact had discarded tags and sales slips from clothing stores in their trash     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The branch of anthropology that studies human languages is called _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. ethnography of speaking     2. ethnolinguistics     3. ethnography      4. linguistic anthropology      5. ethnology     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Humans appear to be unique in having a complex system of symbolic communication, called _______________, that enables humans to preserve and transmit culture from generation to generation.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. the brain     2. Esperanto      3. genes     4. language      5. cuneiform     Score: 0/0.5
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	Cultural anthropology is the study of patterns of human behavior.  These standards _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback  1. operate only when people are unconscious     2. can be studied only by sociologists     3. are biologically inherited     4. are inherited and are studied initially by physical anthropologists     5. focus on humans as culture producing and re-producing creatures      Score: 0/0.5
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	Anthropologists doing fieldwork typically involve themselves in many different experiences. They try to investigate not just one aspect of culture (such as the political system) but how all aspects relate to each other (for example, how the political system fits with economic institutions, religious beliefs, etc.).  This approach is called the _______________ perspective.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. culture-bound     2. sociological     3. holistic       4. ethnological     5. sociocultural     Score: 0/0.5
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	The end product of anthropological research is _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. a single case study that tests a theory     2. culture-bound theories     3. a set of scientific facts      4. a broad hypothesis about human beliefs, behavior and biology      5. a clear understanding of the advantages of adaptation     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	By comparing housework in different cultures, the ethnologist learns that _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. there are no differences in the amount of time spent on household tasks between food foragers and industrialized Western societies      2. Westerners spend the least amount of time on household tasks as compared with other societies     3. food foragers do not do housework     4. food foragers spend less time on household tasks than Westerners do      5. food foragers spend more time on household tasks than Westerners do     Score: 0/0.5
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	Which of the following would not indicate cooking or food processing at archaeological sites?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. temple ruins      2. pottery     3. hearths      4. concentrations of charcoal     5. animal bone fragments     Score: 0/0.5
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	The anthropologist has to consider obligations to three sets of people:   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. the people who funded the study, the anthropologist’s government, and the people who were studied.     2. the anthropologist’s family, government, and people studied.     3. the anthropologist’s students, parents, and the people studied.      4. the profession of anthropology, the people who funded the study, and the people studied.      5. the profession of anthropology, other anthropologists who have studied your community, and the community you studied.     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Ethnographies are _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. intensive studies of particular plants     2. in-depth descriptive studies of specific cultures      3. descriptions of languages     4. intensive studies of ethnic groups      5. comparisons of many specific cultures     Score: 0/0.5
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	What is “transplant tourism”?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. migration from developing countries to Western societies     2. agricultural development in industrialized nations     3. a study of communities of retired persons living outside of the United States      4. travel connected with the buying and selling of human organs      5. the study of immigrants in long-established communities     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Which of the following is not a traditional field or subdiscipline of anthropology?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback  1. archaeology     2. cultural anthropology     3. physical anthropology     4. applied anthropology      5. linguistics     Score: 0/0.5
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	The protection of cultural resources as part of archaeology is called _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. cultural resource excavation     2. cultural resource administration     3. cultural resource management       4. cultural area management     5. ethnographic resource management     Score: 0/0.5
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	Besides interest in descriptions of particular cultures, the ethnologist is interested also in _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback  1. cross-cultural comparisons      2. descriptions of nonhuman societies     3. destroying particular cultures to improve them     4. promoting Western ways     5. teaching food foragers how to use time-saving gadgets     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Although human beings always have been interested in other human beings, anthropology has emerged as a tradition of scientific inquiry over the last _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. 30 years     2. 700 years      3. 150 years      4. 10,000 years     5. 50 years     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Which of the following is not a change that has affected ethnography during the 20th century?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. use of participant observation      2. focus on Western industrialized societies     3. increasing numbers of non-Western peoples have become anthropologists      4. collaboration among anthropologists in varied communities     5. technological change     Score: 0/0.5
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	A detailed description of a particular culture based on fieldwork is called _______________.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. ethnohistory      2. ethnography      3. biography     4. ethnoarchaeology     5. ethnology     Score: 0.5/0.5